[Spambayes] spambayes... - NDRs

[Tys von Gaza]

Bouncing spam was heavily discussed on this list starting on 26/11/2002.
Worth taking a look at what was discussed, pretty sure MTA's were
somewhere in the mix too.

Thread 1:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2002-November/002307.html
Thread 2:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2002-November/002329.html
Thread 3:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2002-November/002331.html

Tys von Gaza
tys at cs.ualberta.ca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
> On Behalf Of Brad Clements
> Sent: May 28, 2003 12:06 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] spambayes... - NDRs
> 
> On 28 May 2003 at 9:43, Ball, Dan wrote:
> 
> > Ya, I thought of that possible outcome, fortunately, I don't know
anyone
> > that was ever one the recieving end of that situation, if I did, I
may
> be
> > much more sensitive to it as well.
> >
> 
> Here's another thought.
> 
> Suppose the MTA had spambayes support 'built-in'.
> 
> It could reject the message after DATA by returning a 500 series
response.
> That
> should generate an NDR at the sending MTA.
> 
> If the spammer is running is own originating MTA (how many of them do)
> then they
> might be interested in getting truly invalid addresses off their
lists.
> 
> Musing ..
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Brad Clements,                bkc at murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
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> 
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